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   Flatten (flătˈt'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flattened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flattening.] [From Flat, a.]
   1. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
   
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   2. To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
   
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   3. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
   
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   4. (Mus.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
   
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   To flatten a sail (Naut.), to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.
   
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   flattened adj.
   1.  shaped like a thin sheet.
   
   Syn. -- planate.
   
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   2.  (Biol) flattened laterally along the whole length e.g. certain leafstalks or flatfishes.
   
   Syn. -- compressed, flat.
   
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